However, Gandhi is also one of the least forgiving leaders, and being a warmonger will cause him to denounce you or even use nuclear weapons against you. In fact, he is one of the few leaders who is more willing to declare friendship with other civilizations and also one of the most loyal allies (befitting his pacifistic nature in real life). It should be noted that in spite of building a lot of nuclear weapons, Gandhi is the leader least likely to declare wars, and is himself not very willing to engage in wars. ) Given the nature of nuclear weapons in real life, however, his preference for nuclear weapons may be a MAD strategy to deter from actual battling. (There is a longstanding rumor that an integer underflow error caused by players adopting Democracy as their government was responsible for this behavior, but Sid Meier denies this in his memoir. This is intended more as a shout-out to the original Civilization than anything else: in this game, the normally peaceful Gandhi started to behave much more aggressively around the time nukes were invented. These are 4 points ahead of the closest leaders ( Catherine, Montezuma, and Shaka with an 8 in both categories), making him hands down the most nuke-happy leader in the game. The biggest thing that stands out about Gandhi is his nuke ratings of 12. So Gandhi's Nuke Production and Use of Nukes will always be 10.
* All ratings higher than 10 are rounded down to 10. Voice Actor: Avtar Sandhu AI Traits Trait
(Though his first language was Gujarati, he knew how to speak Hindi as well.) On his diplomacy screen, he is standing on the bank of the Ganges.